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If you are a worker you should because improvements eventually expand to non-striking workers in the same field and other fields and because they would do the s
by kungfooguru 13y ago
If you are a worker you should because improvements eventually expand to non-striking workers in the same field and other fields and because they would do the same for you if you needed support.
If you are a capitalist, you wouldn't.
- mikeash 13y agoIt's a big assumption that improvements eventually expand to others. Yes, some have in the past, but that doesn't mean they all do, or all will. There's also a massive unstated assumption that there is an improvement at all. Surely if I happen to disagree with one or both of these assumptions, I can cross a picket line without being a "bad person"?
- hapless 13y agoIf you cross a picket line, you have publicly cast your lot with a particular class. Whether you are a bad person is in the eye of the beholder.
- mikeash 13y agoYou previously said that good people would avoid crossing a picket line out of principle. Now you seem to be saying that the reason to avoid crossing a picket line is because stupid people with a mob mentality might get the wrong message.
- hapless 13y agoI, personally, would consider you a bad person for crossing a picket line. You, or some other person, might feel differently. Whether you accept my assumptions, or the picketers' assumptions, doesn't determine how you will be judged by others.
- mikeash 13y agoWhy would you consider me to be a bad person for crossing a picket line in general?
- kungfooguru 13y agoIn general you are siding with capital. Assuming it isn't a police strike.
- nknighthb 13y agoWhat benefits will spread to me via existing taxi drivers violently maintaining an inefficient and predatory monopoly? This isn't about a 40-hour workweek.